Log, kept by Albert C. Sherman, relating to a whaling voyage to the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic oceans; Includes descriptions of types of whales (blackfish, blue, bowhead, finback, gray, humpback, sperm) and seals seen or taken, arctic disaster, and shipwrecks; and inventory of whale oil and bone. Other places represented include Honolulu; Whaling vessel, out of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Albert C. Sherman, on voyage 6 May 1884-11 Nov. 1885 to the Northeast Atlantic, Brazil Banks, near Falkland Island, Southeast Pacific, Coast of Chile, On the Line, Hawaiian Islands, Anadyr Sea, and Arctic Ocean whaling grounds; owner-agent: William Lewis; built at Searsport, Me., 1857; shipwrecked (1886), when crushed by ice off St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea

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